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to drive, cause to move (
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  • Heó geseh niman hyre cild, and ádrífan ísene næglas þurh ðá handa,

      Hml. Th. i. 146, 11.
to drive off, drive away
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  • Ic ádrífe

    depellar,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 27, 68.

  • Hé ðá hereláfe tó his lande ádráf,

      Ælfc. T. 9, 38.

  • Hí ádrifon

    abigerant,

      An. Ox. 3654.

  • Hié ðone cyning norþ ofer Temese ádrifon,

      Chr. 823; P. 60, 15.

  • Ádrífende

    pellentes,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 92, 63.

  • Ádrifen, bewered wǽre

    arceretur,

      3, 52.

  • Ádrifen

    elim(in)atus,

      76, 58.

  • Ádrifene

    eliminate,

      96, 17.

  • Hæfde hine Penda ádrifenne,

      Chr. 658; P. 32, 6.
  • II a. with words further marking removal,
áweg
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  • Hí hine áweg ádrifon,

      Bl. H. 221, 22: Chr. 1086; P. 222, 3.

  • Is áweg ádrifen

    explodatur,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 32, 71.
fram
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  • Ðú mé ádrífest from earde mínum,

      Gen. 1032.

  • Gif gé mé fram ádrýfaþ (

    expellitis

    ),
      Coll. M. 29, 23.

  • Ðú ús ádrife fram dóme

    repulisti nos,

      Ps. Th. 107, 10.

  • Se fugel ádráf ealle ðá óþre fuglas fram ðǽm líchoman,

      Shrn. 57, 3.

  • Fram ádreofon

    abegerunt,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 82, 73.

  • Ádríf hí fram ðé,

      Bt. 7. 2; F. 18, 9.

  • Hí sýn fram ðínre handa ádrifene

    de manu tua expulsa sunt,

      Ps. Th. 87, 5.
heonon
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  • Ðá man mæg mid fæstenum heonon ádrífan,

      Dóm. L. 30, 46.
of
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  • Hé his bróðer ádráf of éðele,

      Chr. 380; P. 11, 10: Sat. 201: Bo. 18.

  • Gif man folan of ádrífe,

      Ll. Th. i. 72, 1.

  • Ðæt hé ðæt deófol of men ádrífe,

      Bl. H. 43, 23.

  • Hí woldon heora kynehláford of his cyneríce ádrífan,

      Chr. 1075; P. 211, 20: Sat. 174.

  • Se frumstól ðe hié of ádrifen wurdon,

      Gen. 964.
út
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  • Út ádriofan

    arcebant,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 9, 28.

  • Ðá heretohan ðe hí ǽr út ádrifon, hí woldon eft út ádrifan for hiora oferméttum,

      Bt. 16, 2; F. 50, 11.

  • Ýð út feor ádráf on Wendelsǽ wígendra scola,

      Met. 26, 30.

  • Ðæt Egypti ádrifen Moyses út,

      Ors. 1, 5; S. 34, 16.

  • Út ádrífende

    explodens,

      An. Ox. 17, 22.

  • Út ádrifenum explosis, út ádrifenre

    explosa,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 32, 14, 15.
Etymology
[Goth. us-dreiban: O. H. Ger. ar-tríban expellere, repudiare.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “á-drífan.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/37521.

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